Governor for engines.



UNITED STATES Patented September 8, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID D. WEISELL, OF FORT WAYNE, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO EDWARD I-I. RAAB, OF FORT WAYNE, INDIANA.

MAGAZINE TORPEDO-CAN E.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No, 738,379, dated September 8, 1903. Application filed July 27, 1903. Serial No. 167,086. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, DAVID D. WEIsnLL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fort Wayne, in the county of Allen, in the State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Magazine Torpedo- Oanes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art-to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in magazine torpedo-canes.

The object of my presentinvention is to provide an improved repeating or magazine torpedo cane economical in construction, safe, efficient, and reliable in operation, and having the magazine for the storage of the torpedoes independent of the cane-body, and thereby avoid the danger incident to an aocidental explosion of the contents of the magazine, which sometimes occurs where the magazine is in the cane-body. Y My invention consists of a spring-supported magazine telescopically mounted in a mortar and carrying upon its lower end a laterally-movable push-plate adapted in its reciprocation to feed the torpedoes singly from the outlet of the magazine into the firing-chamber of the mortar, and a firing plug or pin adapted to form a contact with the bottom of the mortar and to explode the torpedoes in succession, and a cane-body rigidly but detachably connected to the magazine in alinement with the firing-plug.

Similar reference-numerals indicate like parts in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a vertical central section of the torpedomagazine, push-plate, and mortar, the latter being taken on the line between the two separable halves of the mortar, showing the operative parts in their normal position with a torpedo in position to be fired and showing the cane-body broken away.

Fig. 2 is a view in elevation of the same, with one side of the mortar broken away and showing the operative parts compressed into the '50 position theyassume at the moment of firing. Fig. 3 is a detail side View of the mortar, taken at right angles to Figs. 1 and 2. Fig.

at is a detail plan of the push-plate or means for feeding the torpedoes singly to the firingchamber.

The mortaris formed of two duplicate castings 1 and 2, rigidly secured together by proper screws 3 at their upper end and by a screw 4, which passes through to the bottom 6:) thereof below the firing-chamber. This hollow mortar has a vertical opening in its top, has two opposite sides provided with thelongitudinal grooves 5, forming a guideway for the lower end of the vertically-movable magazine 6, and has a vertical guideway 7 for the movable firing plug or pin 8, and whose lower end forms a firing-chamber having a plurality of lateral vents 9, preferably four. The 'mortar is also provided at its lower end and adjacent to the vents with an anvil or abutment 10, upon which the torpedoes are eX- ploded in the manner hereinafter described. The mortar also has near its upper end the oppositely-arranged shoulders or abutments 11 and 12, between which the push-plate is slidably arranged, and has upon one side a torpedo raceway 13, which intersects the push-plate chamber at its upper end and the guideway 7 at its lower end, Fig. 1.

The magazine 6 is preferably tubular and has its upper portion inclined, as shown, relative to the mortar and to its lower end, which is loosely mounted in the mortar, and provided upon its lower end, as described, with a firing plug, pin, or spike 8. The lower end of the magazine has an inclined transverse slot, in which is loosely mounted a reciprocating push-plate 14, a circular vertical opening 15 therein, and a short groove 16 upon its upper face leading thereto, Figs. 1 and 4. This plate fits snugly between the shoulders or abutments 11 and 12 and is actuated thereby in its longitudinal movement in its containing-slot.

The lower tubular portion of the magazine No. "738,382. Patented September 8, 1903.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAY E. VVHEELOOK, OF TAMPICO, ILLINOIS.

GOVERNOR FOR ENGINES.

SPECIFICATION forining part of Letters Patent No. 738,382, dated September 8, 1903.

Application filed November '7, 1902. Serial No. 130,458. (No model.) 

